Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Industrials and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 1.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were TDC A/S (CO:TDC), which rose 0.23% or 0.07 points to trade at 30.78 at the close. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) added 0.12% or 0.5 points to end at 427.4 and DSV (CO:DSV) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.0 points to 284.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ISS A/S (CO:ISS), which lost 2.34% or 5.90 points to trade at 245.90 in late trade. Novo Nordisk B (CO:NOVOb) declined 2.07% or 8.0 points to end at 378.0 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) shed 2.02% or 10.5 points to 510.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 90 to 48 and 13 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 2.21% or 0.82 to $36.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.25% or 0.89 to hit $38.64 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.21% or 15.10 to trade at $1230.00 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.07% to 6.7127, while EUR/DKK fell 0.00% to 7.4577.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 96.66.